Unbound’s CEO: “publishing hasn’t changed since the Middle Ages”

Wil Harris is the CEO of Unbound, a digital publisher with ambitions to disrupt an industry he says is almost unchanged in hundreds of years.

Unbound uses a crowdfunding model to finance the publication of books.

In this episode we talk about: 

• Why Publishing is “ripe for disruption” 
• The risks of running a disruptive player against legacy giants 
• The benefits of crowd-funding 
• How Unbound’s encouraging wider diversity in authors 
• How they’re encouraging big name writers to work with them 
• The internet was built for niche communities, and how to appeal to them 
• His career from starting one of the world’s first YouTube production companies to books 

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